Eric F. Van de Velde wrote:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4564477.stm>
> Is this a first? I.e., a major news organization uses unrefereed
> self-archived preprint as the basis of a news story. Although not a
> major hard-news story, it was posted on the main page of the BBC news
> web site. Does this point to the growing acceptance of Open
> Archives and/or of arXiv? Does it point to a growing disregard for peer
> review (at least, outside of the academy)?